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The Essential Guide to Application Data Migration
Importance of migrating active and historical data
Digital transformation demands the adoption of new tools and processes to support development teams’ needs for agile, best-of-breed or modern solutions. Seamless data migration between legacy tools and the newly selected Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) tools is key ensure a smooth and successful adoption of new tools and processes.
With a great deal of institutional knowledge and historical data locked in existing legacy tools, it is necessary to plan the migration strategy carefully. Preservation of cumulative knowledge with historical context and minimization of downtime are critical factors in the migration strategy. Poorly planned, sub-optimal or incomplete migration strategies can result in significant downtime, idle employees or loss of institutional knowledge and productivity. The loss of historical data may also have audit and compliance implications in addition to increased business risks. The Read More
The Agile Approach to Data Migration
Application data migration approaches
Strategic and organizational excellence differentiates winners from the rest. One of the key drivers of innovation is the adoption of modern, flexible and task-appropriate tools that enable users to unblock themselves from restrictive, slow, legacy processes and applications. Effective modern systems and processes become a force multiplier and can dramatically increase the effectiveness of individuals and teams. As such, tool modernization and migration become a critical business imperative to survive and succeed in the new digital world. But modern technology transitions are complex by their very nature. There is a wealth of institutional knowledge, wisdom and historical data stored in legacy systems. Preserving and transferring the history, linkages and context is essential for effective modernization.